Thunder Broadcast Bios

Brian Davis completed his seventh season as the team's television voice. A
veteran basketball broadcaster, Davis returned to the NBA in 2004 as host of
Seattle Sonics broadcasts on FSN Northwest.

Davis regularly covered the Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era
and became a contributor to NBA Radio, hosting game broadcasts and serving
as sideline reporter for the network during the 1991 playoffs and NBA Finals. He
later hosted Bulls broadcasts on FSN Chicago and occasionally called Sonics games in Seattle.
He has an extensive play-by-play resume at the college level, including the Big Ten, Pac-10,
Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference.

Davis has called games at the professional level in three other sports: football, as radio voice
of the Seattle Seahawks; hockey, in a reserve role with Chicago Blackhawks; and soccer, with
Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire. He has also worked as pre-season play-by-play announcer
for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals.

As a sports anchor for CBS Radio and its Chicago all-news affiliate, Davis covered major
events including the Olympics, NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals. His resume includes football
play-by-play in the Big Ten, Pac-10 and MAC. He is an accomplished interviewer and talk show
host and has won several professional awards, including one for investigative journalism during
his days as a news reporter in Chicago.

Davis holds a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He and his wife, Judy, have
two children and make their home in the Oklahoma City area.

Thunder Broadcast Bios

Michael Cage | Thunder Television Analyst

Michael Cage joined the Thunder broadcasting team in 2014 as its television analyst for all FOX Sports Oklahoma broadcasts.

Cage played 15 seasons from 1984-2000 as a power forward in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle Supersonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets. He led the NBA in rebounding in 1988, capturing the title by grabbing 30 rebounds in the final game of the regular season.

A native of West Memphis, Ark., Cage was a first-round draft pick of the Clippers in 1984 following a successful career at San Diego State University. At SDSU he was named a second-team All-American in 1984 and twice was selected as Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year. The Aztecs retired his jersey (No. 44) in 1984. He was also a member of the gold-medal winning 1983 United States team in the Pan American Games, and he is a member of both the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the San Diego State Hall of Fame.

Following his playing career, Cage has worked as both a broadcaster and a high school and AAU basketball coach. His broadcasting experience includes serving as TV analyst for the Memphis Grizzlies, FOX Sports West, Prime Ticket and Westwood One radio. Cage coached Mater Dei High School in Los Angeles to back-to-back state titles in 2013-14 and a national championship in 2014. He also served as a guest coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers at the 2013 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

Cage has a long history of giving back to the community during and after his NBA playing career. The Michael Cage Foundation works with young athletes to mentor, teach and share life lessons.

Veteran NBA play-by-play announcer Matt Pinto completed his eighth season with the franchise, calling all games on the team's flagship station, WWLS The Sports Animal (640 AM/98.1 FM).

Prior to joining the franchise, Pinto was in Los Angeles where he has served as the radio voice of the NBA's Clippers for two seasons. From 1997-2005, Pinto was on the Dallas Mavericks' broadcast team, serving as the radio play-by-play voice from 1997-2001 and the television voice from 2001-2005. While in Dallas, Pinto also worked as a talk show host for KESN (ESPN 103.3 FM) and was the play-by-play announcer of the NCAA Division IAA regional game of the week for The Football Network. In 1997, Pinto was named best play-by-play announcer for the state of Texas by the Associated Press.

From 1990-1997, Pinto was the radio play-by-play voice of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets. Pinto was also the television play-by-play voice of UN C-Charlotte basketball games and was an occasional host of ESPN national sports talk shows and the play-by-play voice of Westwood One college basketball.

Before joining the NBA ranks, Pinto worked in the sports broadcasting field in Honolulu, Boston, Los Angeles and Amarillo, Texas.

McCaslin came to the Thunder from Dallas where she has worked as an anchor and reporter on FOX Sports Southwest, covering the Dallas Mavericks, Texas Rangers, and Big 12 and Conference USA football. Her career also includes Texas high school football broadcasts and local TV sports reporting in Texas markets Austin and Abilene. She grew up in west Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.

As host and courtside/web reporter, McCaslin anchors the team’s pregame show Thunder Live, provides courtside reports during the game broadcasts and is a frequent video contributor to the team website, THUNDER.NBA.COM, covering Thunder Basketball and community events. She hosts the weekly Thunder Insider show, which appears on FOX Sports Oklahoma, THUNDER.NBA.COM, NewsOK.com and TheSportsAnimal.com

Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman joined FOX Sports Oklahoma in 2012 as analyst on THUNDER LIVE pregame and postgame shows. She provides perspective and analysis before and after every Thunder telecast on FOX Sports Oklahoma.

Lieberman has a storied and distinguished career as a player, coach and broadcaster. She is widely regarded as a basketball pioneer having been the first woman to play in a men’s professional league in 1986 as a member of the Springfield Fame of the United States Basketball League and the first female coach of a men’s professional basketball team with the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League in 2010.

The former WNBA player and head coach, two-time Olympian, three-time All American, two-time collegiate national champion and two-time National Player of the Year at Old Dominion University was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.

Prior to her role with the Thunder, Lieberman served as a television analyst for FOX Sports Southwest, ESPN, ABC, NBC and NBA TV.

Eleno Ornelas completed his fifth season as the Thunder's Spanish radio play-by-play
announcer. Eleno also serves as the Texas Rangers Coordinator of Spanish Broadcasting and
play-by-play announcer for all Rangers Spanish radio broadcasts. Ornelas joined the Rangers
Spanish radio broadcast team in 2000

He did both play-by-play and analysis before becoming the full-time play-by-play
announcer in 2003. In addition to the Rangers, Ornelas was play-by-play for the Dallas
Mavericks and Texas Rangers. Ornelas, is a native of Juarez, Mexico and was a professional baseball announcer
in that country before coming to Texas. He has an extensive background as an administrator in the Mexican
amateur baseball leagues in North Texas, serving as President of the Dallas League from 1993-98.